AI News Today: OpenAI Brings Visual Ads to ChatGPT

ChatGPT reaches about 1.2 billion people a week, and later this month some of them will start seeing picture ads while they generate images. DX Today AI Daily Brief - Monday, October 5, 2026 OpenAI introduces a visual ad format for ChatGPT, with a first test inside image generation later this month in the US and new brand suitability pilots with DoubleVerify and Integral Ad Science. Cohere launches North 2, adding agent memory and token spending caps, and forms a global alliance with PwC starting in Canada. LG Electronics signs a long term deal to supply chillers for more than 5 gigawatts of AI data center capacity in North America. TeraWulf doubles contracted power at its Muskie campus in Kentucky to 1 gigawatt. German robot maker RobCo passes a $1 billion valuation as its CEO moves to the US. Greenko backed AM Intelligence orders about 20,000 more Nvidia Rubin GPUs for India and Malaysia. Cognizant launches Cognizant Activate for emerging enterprises. Namespace raises $42 million to build infrastructure for AI coding agents. Clockwork raises $31 million as LinkedIn and Together AI adopt its fault tolerance software. LTM and Rubrik launch AgenTraceIQ to monitor and rewind AI agents. A University of Limerick study finds people paid a female presenting AI agent about 10 percent less. And Paul Christiano is named the 2026 lecturer for the Hinton Lectures on AI safety. DX Today: your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #AIAgents #DXToday Subscribe to DX Today on YouTube and in your podcast app for daily no hype AI news.